Imovie

Fraps to iMovie

29 Jan 2010 · Apple, Software, Windows

How to successfully import a movie recorded using Fraps into iMovie;

Get Fraps, record whatever you want
Get XviD4PSP (freeware) & install
Import your avi files recorded using Fraps into XviD4PSP (drag & drop)
Pick the encoding you want on the left. x264 q21 DXVA-SD-Insane seemed to be an acceptable quality.
Click enqueue (and repeat 3->5 for multiple files)
Click encode
... wait ...
This will create .mp4 files; transfer those to your Mac
Open iMovie, File -> Import -> Movies -> select the mp4 files
... wait ... A couple of hours
Your movie should now be in iMovie, and you should be able to edit it
Edit whatever you want to edit, share and export and have fun.

A little hint, if your video is cropped (parts cut off), click your movie sequence -> on the left corner of your sequence a little "gear" will appear -> Cropping & Rotation -> in your right display window click "fit" to make it full size.

Took me quite some time before I managed to do it, but hey, now I know… ;)

EyeTV + ffmpegX = iMovie

1 Feb 2008 · Apple, Software

EyeTV is a cool application that let’s you watch TV on your Mac. I happen to have the “lite” version, because it was significantly cheaper than the other version.

The cool thing is, you can easily record films or TV episodes with it, but with this version, there is no way to export it to a iMovie project, or to play the recording in a QuickTime based application.

When recording, it creates a folder “Live Recording - $date $time.eyetv”. And when double clicking it, it will open EyeTV.